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The state has revoked the license of a doctor who worked at a Far West Side cash-only pain
clinic.Dr. William B. Cullen, of Wadsworth, worked at Ohio Medical West, 108 N. Murray Hill Rd.,
from March 2010 to June 2011. The practice, which has had problems involving improper prescribing,
is no longer open.

The State Medical Board took away Cullen’s license based on inadequate care of 24 patients.
Board documents cited a long list of problems, including that Cullen didn’t take a good history on
patients before prescribing medication.

He also neglected to develop treatment plans for the patients and, in some cases, prescribed
large amounts of narcotics to new patients who hadn’t had any recent prescriptions for those
medications, board investigators found.

In a couple of cases, patients who would have been good candidates for alternative therapy or
less-potent pain medication received oxycodone on their first visit, according to board
documents.

During his hearing, Cullen pointed out that the 24 patients were not selected randomly and that
it wasn’t fair to extrapolate that his care was inadequate across the board.

Last October, the board took away the license of another former Ohio Medical West physician, Dr.
Daniel H. Brumfield.